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THE  EARLY  HISTORY  OF  THE 
YOUNG  MEN’S  MERCAN- 
TILE LIBRARY  ASSOCIATION 


BY 

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Murray  E.  Merrihew 

To  which  is  added  lists  of  new 
books  to  be  found  in  the  Library 


Cincinnati  1905 


Board  of  Directors 


John  E.  Bruce,  President 
Allen  Collier,  Vice-President 
Lewis  Hood,  Secretary 
W.  W.  Brown,  Treasurer 
Wm.  B.  Carpenter 
D.  McKim  Cooke 
Max  C.  Fleischmann 

E.  G. 


F.  W.  Hinkle 
Godfrey  Holterhoff 
Harry  W.  Hutchins 
David  M.  Levy 
Jesse  Lowman 
Asa  B.  Morgan 
Geo.  H.  Warrington 

ScHRIEFER 


Board  of  Real  Estate  Managers 

Stephen  R.  Burton  Earl  W.  Stimson 

Reuben  A.  Holden,  Jr.  Chas.  B.  Wilby 


Wm.  B.  A.  Taylor,  Librarian 
ASSISTANTS 

Alice  McLean  Jacob  Tuechter 

Caroline  Gaither  Robert  Stevenson 


Cataloguer 

Grace  Goodale 


Library  hours,  9 a.  m.  to  9 p.  m.  daily. 


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To  The  Citizens  of  Cincinnati: 

The  Young  Men’s  Mercantile  Library  has  labored 
under  a great  handicap  in  the  lack  of  necessary  quar- 
ters, but  now  it  lies  within  our  power  to  welcome  you 
to  our  permanent  home. 

We  have  a rare  heritage  in  the  books  that  are  ours, 
and  with  our  new  steel  stacks  and  other  library  equip- 
ment we  are  ready  to  take  a share  of  the  real  library 
work  of  the  city,  and  we  believe  that  this  institution, 
standing  as  it  has  stood  for  culture,  and  identified  with 
the  history  of  Cincinnati  for  seventy  years,  still  deserves 
your  recognition. 

Suggestions  for  making  the  library  more  useful  are 
invited,  and  also  recommendations  of  desirable  books. 
With  your  co-operation  we  trust  that  the  Young  Men’s 
Mercantile  Library  will  speedily  grow  into  the  affec- 
tions of  all  its  patrons. 


Wm.  B.  A.  Taylor. 


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Early  History  of  the  Young 
Men’s  Mercantile  Library 
Association.* 


To  trace  the  early  history  and  organization  of  the 
Mercantile  Library  from  its  beginning  to  the  present 
time,  to  speak  of  the  men  of  commercial  distinction  and 
national  reputation,  who  have  been  its  presidents  and 
members  of  its  Board  of  Directors,  of  all  the  move- 
ments, mercantile,  literary  and  social,  concerning  the 
city’s  growth  and  importance,  that  it  has  fostered  and 
advanced  in  the  past  seventy  years,  would  take  me  far 
beyond  the  scope  of  your  kind  invitation.  For  the  pur- 
pose of  this  short  talk,  I shall  confine  myself  to  the  inci- 
dents and  facts  of  greatest  interest.  That  some  one 
must  have  suggested  the  thought  of  establishing  a place 
where  the  young  men  of  the  city,  engaged  in  mercantile 
pursuits,  the  artizans,  the  clerks  and  the  bookkeepers, 
might  spend  their  evenings  profitably,  and  that  the 
merchant’s  clerk  as  well  as  his  employer,  should  be  an 
educated  man  and  a lover  of  books,  there  can  be  no 
doubt.  Diligent  search  through  the  early  annals  of 
the  Library  brings  to  view  the  name  of  one  man  as  the 
most  active  worker  and  orginator  among  that  little  band 
of  forty-five  young  men,  who  met  for  the  first  time  on  the 
18th  of  April,  1835,  in  the  second  story  of  the  old  engine 
house  on  the  north  side  of  Fourth  Street,  a few  doors 
east  of  Christ  Church.  His  name  was  Moses  Ranney; 
he  was  its  first  president,  and  it  is  proper  to  say  the 
father  of  the  Association.  Some  eighteen  hundred  dol 
lars  was  raised,  seven  hundred  books  bought,  and  with 
* Delivered  before  the  Wotnan's  Club , November  10,  1904> 


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less  than  fifty  members  the  Library  was  first  located  at 
Daniel  Ames’,  on  the  west  of  Main,  below  Pearl  Street. 
The  directors  served  in  turn  to  open  and  shut  the  room, 
sweep  it  and  trim  the  lamps ; there  was  no  gas  in  town 
at  this  time.  As  cash  in  those  days  was  scarcer  than 
it  is  now,  during  the  summer  of  this  year,  not  having 
the  means  of  hiring  a librarian,  the  Library  was  tem- 
porarily closed,  but  opened  again  in  the  fall,  in  the 
second  story  over  Eoss  & Geyer’s  cabinet  shop  on  Fourth 
Street,  east  of  Main.  Cincinnati  at  this  time  contained 
a population  of  about  40,000. 

In  1840,  the  Library  moved  from  Fourth  Street  to 
the  Old  College  Building,  on  this  site;  from  the  south 
end  of  the  College  to  Fourth  Street  there  was  a beau- 
tiful garden  with  shrubbery  and  trees. 

In  1841  the  first  catalogue  was  prepared,  showing 
some  3,000  volumes  and  about  600  members.  Among 
the  notable  events  in  which  the  Association  participated 
in  a body  was  the  funeral  of  President  Harrison  in  this 
year,  and  the  laying  of  the  foundation  of  the  Mt. 
Adams  Astronomical  Association  Building  in  1843, 
when  the  oration  was  delivered  by  Ex-President  John 
Quincy  Adams. 

An  event  in  the  history  of  the  Library  was  the  intro- 
duction of  gas,  in  1843;  previous  to  that  time  the 
Library,  like  the  community  at  large,  depended  for 
light  upon  the  use  of  tallow  candles  and  lard  oil.  As 
early  as  1839  the  Mercantile  Library  started  the  first 
movement  to  establish  a Chamber  of  Commerce  in  Cin- 
cinnati, and  thus  to  supply  a long-felt  want  among  the 
merchants  and  business  men  of  the  mercantile  com- 
munity. K.  M.  W.  Taylor,  John  W.  Hartwell  and 
Moses  Eanney  were  selected  as  a committee  who  pro- 
posed a preamble  and  resolution,  which  is  the  first 
action  of  the  present  Chamber  of  Commerce;  that  com- 


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mittee  was  composed  of  men  who  were  among  the  most 
active  members  of  the  Library.  The  quarterly  report 
of  October,  1846,  gives  a history  of  its  Change  Depart- 
ment of  the  Library  as  follows: 

“The  project  of  a Merchant’s  Exchange  was  sug- 
gested in  the  winter  of  1843  by  a number  of  the  old 
merchants  of  the  city,  and  at  their  urgent  request  its 
entire  management  was  undertaken  by  the  Board  of 
Directors  of  this  Association;  active  exertions  were  at 
once  made  to  carry  out  the  plan,  a subscription  paper 
was  put  into  circulation  and  a sufficient  number  of  sub- 
scribers having  been  obtained  the  necessary  prelimin- 
aries were  effected  and  an  Exchange  Boom  opened  on 
the  first  of  May  ensuing;  owing  either  to  the  want  of 
concert  of  action  in  those  interested,  or  to  the  fact  that 
the  business  of  the  city  did  not  require  its  adoption,  one 
object  of  the  institution — the  establishment  of  regular 
Change  hours — was  not  attained.  The  reports  of  the 
arrival  and  departure  of  steamboats,  of  the  exports  and 
imports  to  and  from  the  city  by  the  river,  canals  and 
railroads,  and  of  the  arrivals  at  the  principal  hotels,  all 
of  which  were  recorded  daily  in  books  kept  for  the  pur- 
pose, open  to  the  examination  of  the  subscribers,  were, 
however,  deemed  of  sufficient  importance  as  valuable 
commercial  statistics  to  justify  a continuance  of  the 
department,  and  to  this  end  its  organization  has  been 
maintained  from  year  to  year  by  the  several  Boards  of 
Directors  until  the  first  of  September  last,  when  it  was 
transferred  to  the  more  legitimate  guardianship  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce.” 

In  grateful  recognition  of  services  rendered  in  the 
past,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  has  always  tendered  to 
the  Library  the  use  of  its  magnificent  hall  on  the  occa- 
sion of  the  annual  elections  of  the  Library. 


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The  Mercantile  Library  was  the  first  organization 
in  the  city  to  establish  a course  of  lectures,  and  perhaps 
the  earliest  institution  in  the  West  to  encourage  and 
advance  the  cause  of  woman.  Invitations  to  lecture  were 
extended  by  the  Association  to  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe 
and  Miss  Eliza  Logan.  Home  talent  was  secured  at 
first,  and  efforts  were  made  to  get  lecturers  from  the 
eastern  cities,  but  the  time,  fatigue  and  expense  of  trav- 
elling were  so  great  that  it  was  impossible  to  accomplish 
it.  It  required  from  five  to  seven  days  to  travel  from 
Hew  York  to  Cincinnati. 

The  Herald  of  Truth  of  February,  1848,  says: 
“There  is  at  this  time  an  unusual  degree  of  intellectual 
activity  in  Cincinnati.  The  Mercantile  Library  have 
a course  of  very  able  lectures  in  progress,  which  are 
attended  by  a large  portion  of  the  first  minds  of  the 
city.”  At  the  start  lectures  were  given  by  Ormsby  M. 
Mitchell,  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe,  Judge  Timothy  Wal- 
ker, Salmon  P.  Chase,  Bishop  McElvaine,  while  at  a 
later  period  these  were  followed  by  Robert  Dale  Owen, 
Horace  Greeley,  Alexander  Campbell,  Ralph  Waldo 
Emerson,  W.  M.  Thackeray,  Miss  Eliza  Logan,  Wendell 
Phillips,  Edward  Everett,  and  many  others. 

On  January  18,  1845,  the  old  College  Building  was 
destroyed  by  fire.  The  College  Trustees  were  unable  to 
rebuild  and  asked  assistance  from  the  Library.  By  lib- 
eral donations  of  its  members  and  merchants  generally, 
the  Library  raised  the  sum  of  $10,000 — a very  large 
amount  of  money  for  those  days.  This  was  paid  to  the 
Trustees  of  the  College,  and  in  return  the  Library 
received  a lease  for  its  room  in  the  building  to  be  con- 
structed on  this  site  for  the  full  term  of  10,000 
years  free  of  rent,  also  the  heating  of  the  room  during 
this  period  free  of  charge,  and  some  minor  but  import- 
ant privileges.  This  lease  is  the  most  valuable  asset  the 


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Library  possesses;  it  was  drawn  by  Judge  Alphonso 
Taft  and  bear  the  signatures  of  John  W.  Hartwell, 
President,  and  Joseph  C.  Butler,  Recording  Secretary, 
and  is  dated  January  1,  1849. 

In  1882  a propositon  to  sell  the  lease  to  the  College 
for  $40,000 — a price  that  the  College  was  willing  to 
pay — was  put  to  a vote  of  the  Association,  and  resulted 
as  follows : Against  sale  of  lease,  1,722 ; in  favor  of  sale, 
48,  thus  attesting  in  the  most  emphatic  manner  the 
high  esteem  and  gratitude  in  which  the  distinguished 
jurist,  who  made  the  lease,  and  the  successive  Boards  of 
Directors  and  Real  Estate  Managers,  who  have  guarded 
and  preserved  it,  were  held  by  the  members  of  the 
Library.  The  Library  has  been  the  recipient  of  many 
bequests  and  donations.  In  1867  Andrew  MfeArthur 
bequeathed  a handsome  sum  to  purchase  rare  and  use- 
ful books.  These  have  been  placed  in  the  alcove  known 
as  the  McArthur  Library.  David  B.  Lawler,  Timothy 
C.  Day,  John  F.  Dair,  T.  C.  Kirby,  F.  D.  Lincoln,  Geo. 
T.  Harrison  have  enriched  its  shelves  with  works  of 
priceless  value.  The  Timothy  C.  Day  bequest  is  being 
used  to  purchase  memberships,  that  are  distributed  an- 
nually among  the  meritorious  pupils  of  the  Public 
Schools  of  the  city.  Some  twenty-five  hundred  young 
men  and  young  women  have  thus  been  given  access  to 
its  books  through  the  generosity  of  Mr.  Day. 

The  Library  has  been  fortunate  in  the  selection  of 
its  seven  or  eight  Librarians,  men  who  have  united  a 
thorough  knowledge  of  books  with  executive  ability. 
Upon  the  death  of  Mr.  M.  Hazen  White  in  1878,  after 
twelve  years  of  faithful  services,  he  was  succeeded  by 
Mr.  John  M.  Newton,  who  for  nineteen  years  gave  to 
the  Library  the  best  results  of  a well  trained  literary 
mind.  Kindness  and  courtesy  to  all  with  whom  he 
came  in  contact  marked  his  daily  life.  He  died  in 


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1897  at  his  post  of  duty  in  the  Library,  among  the 
books  he  loved  so  well. 

Many  interesting  events  in  the  history  of  the  Library 
might  bementioned  at  this  time;  perhaps  the  greatest  and 
most  remarkable  has  been  the  progress  made  within  the 
last  few  years  and  the  changes  that  have  taken  place 
from  the  old  Library  of  the  past  to  the  new  Library  of 
to-day.  Commencing  with  some  700  volumes  it  now 
contains  over  66,000,  the  result  of  years  of  intellectual 
labor  in  their  selection.  From  the  small  room  it  occu- 
pied over  the  cabinet  shop  on  Fourth  Street  in  1835,  to 
its  permanent  home  in  the  Mercantile  Library  Build- 
ing, on  Walnut  Street,  where  its  members  enjoy  the 
advantages  of  the  best  lighted  and  most  conveniently 
arranged  reading  room  in  the  city.  In  its  consultation 
room  is  to  be  found  a complete  set  of  Cincinnati  papers, 
beginning  with  Liberty  Hall  and  the  old  Cincinnati 
Gazette  in  1829,  to  the  present  time.  As  a library  of 
reference  these  files  are  unequalled  and  the  only  com- 
plete record  in  the  city.  Some  ninety  magazines,  the 
best  periodicals  and  pictorial  publications,  domestic  and 
foreign;  seventy  of  the  leading  daily  and  weekly  news- 
papers of  America  and  Europe;  a well-equipped  chess 
room  for  those  who  love  the  game;  a neatly  furnished 
room  has  been  provided  by  the  present  Board  of  Direct- 
ors for  ladies  engaged  in  the  preparation  of  special 
papers  and  essays  or  other  matters  connected  with  lit- 
erary work. 

As  has  been  said  by  another : “From  these  brief  out- 
lines it  will  be  seen  that  the  Library  Association  has 
been  particularly  active  to  further  the  best  interests  of 
the  city.  It  has  also  probably  been  productive  of  more 
mental  benefits  than  any  other  institution  in  the  city, 
save  perhaps  the  schools,  and  even  the  schools,  admir- 
able as  they  are,  are  but  helps  to  understand  and  profit 


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by  the  treasures  heaped  up  in  a well  selected  library. 
The  educating  power  of  such  books  as  it  has  upon  its 
shelves  can  not  be  measured.  It  sustained  for  a long 
time  the  lectures  which  have  delighted  and  instructed 
Cincinnati.  It  originated  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
and  the  Merchant’s  Exchange.  The  attraction  of  its 
pleasant  reading  room  has  furnished  to  two  generations 
of  our  young  men  a safeguard  against  vice  and  dissipa- 
tion. It  has  been  productive  of  a pure  morality  in  the 
silent  teachings  of  its  books  and  promoted  as  high  a 
degree  of  culture  as  any  other  institution  in  Cincin- 
nati.” Murray  E.  Merrihew. 


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FICTION. 

ALTSHELER.  Guthrie  of  the  Times. 

ARNIM.  Adventures  of  Elizabeth  in  Ruegen. 
BARBOUR.  Kitty  of  the  roses. 

BARNES.  Unpardonable  war. 

BARR,  A.  E.  Belle  of  Bowling  Green. 

BARR,  R.  Chicago  princess. 

BARRETT.  Never-never  land. 

BELL,  J.  J.  Later  adventures  of  wee  Macgregor. 
BELL.  L.  L.  At  home  with  the  J ardines. 

BENSON.  Challoners.  ' 

BLUNDELL.  Lychgate  hall. 

BRUDNO.  Fugitive. 

BURNETT.  In  the  closed  room. 

BURNHAM.  Jewel’s  story  book. 

CAINE.  Prodigal  son. 

CARRYL.  Transgression  of  Andrew  Yane. 
CHAMBERS.  Young  man  in  a hurry. 

CHURCHILL.  Crossing. 

CONNOLLY.  Out  of  Gloucester. 

CONNOR.  Prospector. 

CONRAD.  Nostromo. 

COOK.  Wellesley  stories. 

CORELLI,  M.  Pseud.  God’s  good  man. 

COTES.  Imperialist. 

CRAWFORD.  Whosoever  shall  offend. 

CROCKETT.  Loves  of  Miss  Anne. 

DAYIS.  Falaise  of  the  blessed  voice. 

DILLON.  Rose  of  Old  St.  Louis. 

EGGLESTON.  Captain  in  the  ranks. 

FIELD.  Little  Miss  Dee. 

FOWLER.  Kate  of  Kate  Hall. 

FOX.  Christmas  eve  on  Lonesome. 

FRENCH.  Susan  Clegg  and  her  friend  Mrs.  Lathrop. 
GILSON.  Flower  of  youth. 


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GRANT.  Undercurrent. 

GREENE.  Deacon  Lysander. 
HAGGARD.  Brethren. 

HARBEN.  Georgians. 

HERRICK.  Common  lot. 

HEWLETT.  Queen’s  quair. 

HOPE.  Double  harness. 

HOUGH.  Law  of  the  land. 

HOUSMAN.  Sabrina  Warham. 
HOWELLS.  Son  of  Royal  Langbrith. 
HOYT.  Nancy’s  country  Christmas. 
HUME.  Red  window. 

I SHAM.  Black  Friday. 

JACOBS.  Dialstone  lane. 

JAMES.  Golden  bowl. 

JEPSON.  Admirable  tinker. 

JEROME.  Tommy  and  Co. 

KIPLING.  Traffics  and  discoveries. 
KIRK.  Apology  of  Aylilfe. 

LANE.  Nancy  Stair. 

LEWIS.  President. 

LINCOLN.  Cap’n  Eri. 

LITCHFIELD.  Letter  D. 

LONDON.  Sea-wolf. 

LONG.  Sixty  Jane. 

LOOMIS.  More  cheerful  Americans. 
LORIMER.  Old  Gorgon  Graham. 
McCarthy.  Lady  of  Loyalty  House. 
McCUTCHEON.  Beverly  of  Graustark. 
MACGRATH.  Man  on  the  box. 
MALLOCK.  Veil  of  the  temple. 
MARTIN.  House  of  Fulfilment. 
MERRIMAN.  Last  hope. 

MICHELSON.  In  the  bishop’s  carriage. 
MORRISON.  Green  diamond. 


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NICHOLSON.  Zelda  Dameron. 

N ORDAU.  Morgantic. 

O’NEILL.  Loves  of  Edwy. 

OPPENHEIM.  Survivor. 

OVERTON.  Captains  of  the  world. 
OXENHAM.  Hearts  in  exile. 

PAGE.  Bred  in  the  bone. 

PARRISH.  My  lady  of  the  North. 

PARKER.  Ladder  of  swords. 

PEMBERTON.  Beatrice  of  Venice. 

PHELPS.  Trixy. 

PHILLIPS.  The  cost. 

PHILLPOTTS.  Farm  of  the  dagger. 
PIDGIN.  Letter  H. 

PORTER.  Freckles. 

POST.  Flight  of  a moth. 

POTTER.  Flame-gatherers. 

RICKERT.  Reeper. 

RIVES.  Castaway. 

ROBERTS,  M.  Rachel  Marr. 

ROWLAND.  To  windward. 

RUFFIN.  North  star. 

SINCLAIR.  M.  Divine  fire. 

SEDGWICK.  Paths  of  judgment. 

SINCLAIR.  Manassas. 

SMITH.  Promoters. 

STEPHENS.  Bright  face  of  danger. 
STEVENS.  Sign  of  triumph. 

STEVENSON,  B.  E.  Cadets  of  Gascony. 
STOKER.  Jewel  of  seven  stars. 

STREETER.  Dr.  Tom,  the  Coroner  of  Brett. 
STUART.  River’s  children. 

THRUSTON.  Masquerader. 

TRACY.  Pillar  of  light. 

TRUSCOTT.  Mother  of  Pauline. 


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ULLMAN.  Gingham  rose. 

VOYNICH.  Olive  Latham. 

WALLER.  Woodcarver  of  Olympus. 

WATANNA.  Love  of  Azalea. 

WATSON.  Bethany;  A story  of  the  South. 
WEBSTER.  Traitor  and  loyalist. 

WIGGINS,  and  OTHERS.  Affair  at  the  inn. 
WILLIAMSON.  Princes  Passes. 

WILSON.  Seeker. 

WINTER.  Vanities  of  Mrs.  Whittaker. 

WINTHROP.  Mr.  Waddy’s  return. 
WOMAN-ERRANT. 

YEATS.  Orrain. 

TRAVELS- 

ARMSTRONG,  W.  N.  Around  the  world  with  a king. 
1904. 

BEVERIDGE,  A.  J.  Russian  advance.  1903. 
BISHOP,  Mrs.  I.  B.  Korea  and  her  neighbors.  1898. 
COLQUHOUN,  A.  E.  China  in  transformation.  1898. 
CURTIS,  W.  E.  To-day  in  Syria  and  Palestine.  1903. 
CURTIS,  W.  E.  Turk  and  his  lost  Provinces: 

Greece,  Bulgaria,  Servia  and  Bosnia.  1903. 

DE  WINDT,  H.  From  Paris  to  New  York  by  land. 
1904. 

DRAGE,  G.  Russian  affairs.  1904. 

FENN,  G.  M.  Khedive’s  country;  the  Nile  Valley  and 
its  products.  1904.  % 

GANZ,  H.  Land  of  Riddles;  Russia  of  to-day,  tr. 

from  the  Ger.  by  H.  Rosenthal.  1904. 

GRIFFIS,  W.  E.  Corea  the  hermit  nation.  1904. 
HAMILTON,  A.  Korea.  1904. 

HEARN,  L.  Japan;  an  attempt  at  interpretation. 
HEWLETT,  M.  Road  in  Tuscany.  2v.  1904. 
HOGARTH,  D.  G.  Penetration  of  Arabia.  cl904. 
(Story  of  exploration  ser.) 


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HOSIE,  A.  Manchuria.  1904. 

HOWE,  M.  Beata  Eoma.  1904. 

JOHNSON,  C.  Highways  and  by-ways  of  the  South. 
1904. 

KNOX,  G.  W.  Japanese  life  in  town  and  country. 
1904.  (Our  Asiatic  neighbors  ser.) 

LAUT,  A.  C.  Pathfinders  of  the  West.  1904. 

MILTOUN,  F.  Dumas’  Paris.  1905. 

PALMER,  F.  With  Kuroki  in  Manchuria.  1904. 

NICHOLAS,  F.  C.  Around  the  Caribbean  and  across 
Panama.  1903. 

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